The AMD and NVIDIA companies know how to sell a development is not the first freshness. Give the name of the new adapter FirePro or Tesla and the trick is done. Or rather - the money in your pocket. And much more important than if the same were sold in the gaming video card market. Here and now, AMD is offered for the server market a completely unique product - the first and only in the version for blade-server graphics card FirePro S7100X capable of hardware virtualization. The basis of the decision, as the model name, is the GPU AMD Tonga. Video cards FirePro W7100 workstation on these processors, AMD has started to deliver to the market in late 2014.
Traditionally, the company did not disclose the full GPU specifications for professional use adapters. Of the known specifications of available data on the 256-bit memory bus, and on-board memory type GDDR5. It is also known that solutions TDP is 100 watts. For cellular servers with dense packing "blades", according to AMD's, it is an advantageous offer. On the adapter in the form factor PCIe MXM 3.1 with PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus set simple radiators, and air cooling is carried out centrally through the housing shelf layout.
According to the company, FirePro S7100X hardware supports virtualization such as input-output with a single root (Single Root I / O Virtualization), allowing virtual machines to provide direct access to the hardware of the device capabilities. Simply put, remote users can gain direct access to the "hardware" in the form of the use of OpenGL and OpenCL. Each adapter FirePro S7100X allows you to create up to 16 virtual graphic stations with guaranteed performance. This eliminates the need to purchase graphic stations to be placed on the ground and takes care of the modernization of obsolete equipment. Need more performance? Remote service based on AMD FirePro S7100X provide you more resources. Also, these services make it possible "in the field" to get access to pretty graphics performance, while the user can have on hand a simple laptop or smartphone.
Supplies of AMD FirePro S7100X adapters have already begun. they can not be purchased separately. Solutions are delivered as part of the servers HPE ProLiant WS460c Gen9 Graphics Server Blades.
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